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Author | : Marquis de Custine |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141394528 |
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The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.
Author | : Astolphe De Custine |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : National characteristics, Russian |
ISBN | : 9780141394510 |
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The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.
Author | : Astolphe de Custine |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1590175344 |
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The Marquis de Custine’s record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world’s most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court and on the street, and of the impoverished Russian countryside. But together with a wealth of sharply delineated incident and detail, Custine’s great work also presents an indelible picture—roundly denounced by both Czarist and Communist regimes—of a country crushed by despotism and “intoxicated with slavery.” Letters from Russia, here published in a new edition prepared by Anka Muhlstein, the author of the Goncourt Prize-winning biography of Custine, stands with Tocqueville’s Democracy in America as a profound and passionate encounter with historical forces that are still very much at work in the world today.
Author | : Maija Jansson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004300457 |
Download Art and Diplomacy: Seventeenth-Century English Decorated Royal Letters to Russia and the Far East Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Art and Diplomacy is the study of decorative art employed by the English Crown to enhance royal letters to Russia and the Far East in the seventeenth-century.
Author | : John-Paul Himka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Letters from Heaven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Letters from Heaven features an international group of scholars investigating the place and function of 'popular' religion in Eastern Slavic cultures. The contributors examine popular religious practices in Russia and Ukraine from the middle ages to the present, considering the cultural contexts of death rituals, miracles, sin and virtue, cults of the saints, and icons. The collection not only fills a void in religious scholarship, but also responds to current theoretical challenges. Reflecting critically on the heuristic value of popular religion and on the concept of popular culture in general, Letters from Heaven is characterized by a shift of focus from churches, institutions, and theological discourse to the religious practices themselves and their interconnections with the culture, mentality, and social structures of the societies in question. An important contribution to the fields of religion and Eastern Slavic studies, this volume challenges readers to rethink old pieties and to reconsider the function of religion.
Author | : Carol Apollonio |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498570453 |
Download Chekhov's Letters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles—biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history—to characterize Chekhov’s key epistolary concerns and to examine their role in his life.
Author | : James H. Billington |
Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-03-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0801879760 |
Download Russia in Search of Itself Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Billington describes the contentious discussion occurring all over Russia and across the political spectrum. He finds conflicts raging among individuals as much as between organized groups and finds a deep underlying tension between the Russians' attempts to legitimize their new, nominally democratic identity, and their efforts to craft a new version of their old authoritarian tradition. After showing how the problem of Russian identity was framed in the past, Billington asks whether Russians will now look more to the West for a place in the common European home, or to the East for a new, Eurasian identity.
Author | : Ron McKay |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Letters to Gorbachev Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Notsile L. Dube |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9785449108289 |
Download Life of an African in Russia: 'A Long Letter to My Grandmother' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wondering how it feels like to be a foreigner in Russia?Well, this book is for you. Notsile Dube has been in Russia for almost 10 years. She completed her education in one of the best Universities in Russia. She has worked for some of the most prestigious companies in Russia and even opened her own businesses. In this book, Nono gives us an insight on the country, it's food, tradition, culture and life in general. She also talks about racism in Russia, a popular concern for everyone outside of Russia.Originally letters to her grandmother. Dube's insight inspires readers on how to go about surviving a life outside of home, how to achieve their goals and create the success story they intended when they left home.
Author | : Peter Demianovich Ouspensky |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1465505830 |
Download Letters From Russia 1919 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From 1907 untill 1913 Ouspensky wrote fairly regularly for a Russian newspaper, mostly on foreign affairs. At the same t i m e he was working on various books based on the idea that our consciousness is an incomplete state not far removed from sleep, and also that our three-dimensional view of the universe is inadequate and incomplete. Hoping that answers to some of the questions he had posed might have been found by more ancient civilisations, he made an extensive tour of Egypt, Ceylon and India. On his return Ouspensky learnt that Russia was at war. For a time impending events did not prevent him from lecturing about his travels to very large audiences in St. Petersburg and Moscow. But in 1917 while revolution was spreading through all the Russias, and the Bolsheviks were establishing their reign of terror, Ouspensky was living in various temporary quarters in South Russia, incondtions of great danger and hardship. Until he managed to reach Turkey in 1920 he and those around him were completely cut off from the outside world, unable to receive or send news even as far as the next town, constantly on the alert to avoid being picked up and murdered by the Bolsheviks. In 1919 Ouspensky somehow found a way to send a series of articles to the New Age, which, under the skilful editorship of A. R. Orage, was the leading literary, artistic and cultural weekly paper published in England. These five articles appeared in six instalments as ‘Letters from Russia’. They give a detached but horrific description of the total breakdown of public order, and are reprinted here for the first time. A remarkable feature of the ‘Letters’ is that while the revolution was in progress and the Bolshevik regime not fully established, Ouspensky foresaw with unusual clarity the inevitability of the tyranny described by Solzhenitsyn fifty years later. During the winter of 1919 and the spring of 1920 C. E. Bechhofer (afterwards known as Bechhofer-Roberts) was observing events in Russia as a British correspondent who spoke Russian and had previous experience of the country and people. He had met Ouspensky before 1914, both in Russia and in India; he was a regular contributor to the New Age and had himself translated the first of Ouspensky’s ‘Letters from Russia’, written in July 1919. In Bechhofer’s book In Denikin’s Russia the author describes the week or two he spent with Ouspensky and Zaharov above a sort of barn at Rostov-on-the-Don. With its pathos and humour this passage makes a fitting epilogue to Ouspensky’s smuggled ‘Letters’.